Wow, I'm up early enough to almost catch the night shift.

Our flight out of Vienna is at 7:50, which meant the alarm went off at 4:30. We get home tonight almost 7PM local time, which, if you add 7 hours, will be 14 Vienna time.

No, that's not right. It will be 2AM, so we'll have been up for almost 24 hours. I'm really glad we decided to get a hotel near the airport in Houston and make the drive back on Thursday.

Hi, Dana. Safe travels.

Heathrow! Place of people who speak English. Everyone should speak whatever language they want, of course, but I get back that part of my brain that was trying to remember German words.

Since we have a five-hour layover, we're conducting a thorough review of food options.

And I hear Netflix has a British version of Hoarders. Y'all might be in trouble again.

Hi Dana! At this hour you could have a meeting or something.

And so, the Dems lose again. Awesome.

Yeah, I listened to and read some of the learned analysis, but I was left thinking that throwing tons of money at these elections really only serves to make television watching annoying and mailboxes full but changes nothing.

Happy birthday Epic!

I picked up on those subtle cues.

Safe travels, Dana.

Gah, Sheryl.

Good day for an Epic birthday!

Sheryl's phone saga reminds me that I have my childhood phone number as the pin for our cell phone account. The idea was to keep the kids from being able to upgrade since the know all my usual passwords.

Also, yay Solstice!

Happy birthday, Epic!!

Yeah, I listened to and read some of the learned analysis, but I was left thinking that throwing tons of money at these elections really only serves to make television watching annoying and mailboxes full but changes nothing.

That's what I was thinking! Maybe take that money and use it for actual ground organizing and GOTV.

Exactly, Jesse. And fighting voter suppression efforts.

YES.